Greenspiration News & Events: Tactics to Win

Sun Feb 13 22:52:10 EST 2022

Ottawa Insurrection Has Roots in Pro-Pipeline, Pro-Fossil Convoy

Close observers are linking the occupation to past protests supporting pipelines and fossil fuels, digging into the white supremacist funding and logistics behind the convoy, and spotlighting the increasingly serious health impacts for downtown Ottawa residents exposed to round-the-clock noxious diesel fumes, deafening truck horns, and random harassment and intimidation in their neighbourhoods.

https://www.theenergymix.com/2022/02/11/this-is-sedition-ottawa-insurrection-has-roots-in-pro-pipeline-pro-fossil-convoy/

Decolonizing energy and the nuclear narrative of small modular reactors

Kebaowek First Nation is calling for an alternative to a planned SMR project, one that won’t undermine proper consultation and leave a toxic legacy. Decision-makers have become fixated on carbon emissions as a metric for “clean and green,” ignoring the radioactive impacts and the risks of accidents with the technology.

https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/february-2022/decolonizing-energy-and-the-nuclear-narrative-of-small-modular-reactors/ 

The last of the untamed: Wedzin Kwa and the Wet’suwet’en fight to save her

A pure and sacred river lies at the heart of opposition to the Coastal GasLink pipeline. 

https://ricochet.media/en/3835/the-last-of-the-untamed-wedzin-kwa-and-the-wetsuweten-fight-to-save-her

Canada needs to cut carbon, not try to capture it

https://theconversation.com/canada-needs-to-cut-carbon-not-try-to-capture-it-175987

Posing as Canadian: How Big Foreign Oil captures Canadian energy and climate policy - with Gordon Laxer

https://canadians.org/BigForeignOil

Why we face jail time for safeguarding a livable climate 

In our efforts to stop tree-cutting at a TMX work site, two of us occupied trees, while four positioned ourselves in active work zones . . . one of us expects to be spending her 80th birthday in jail, and another his 65th. Our willingness to face jail time reflects our deeply held conviction that we need to act immediately to curtail fossil fuel expansion to prevent catastrophic climate change. “Canada! Stop building new fossil fuel infrastructure!”

https://vancouversun.com/opinion/ruth-walmsley-why-we-face-jail-time-for-safeguarding-a-livable-climate

Conquering Climate Despair

Many of those who fall victim to doom and despair would otherwise be the first people on the front lines … That’s what makes it so pernicious, this weaponization of doom and despair as a way to disengage advocates.

https://behavioralscientist.org/urgency-and-agency-michael-mann-on-conquering-climate-despair

Canada’s cities lack the authority they need to quit natural gas, but it’s an important step in lowering urban carbon footprints

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2022/02/10/news/canadas-cities-lack-authority-they-need-quit-natural-gas-its-important-step

Atomic Cover-up

This 30-min. doc is the first documentary to explore the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 from the unique perspective, words, and startling images of the brave cameramen and directors who risked their lives filming in the irradiated aftermath. Watch it and other short films for free until Feb. 15th.

https://www.bfcfilmfestival.org/short2022 

Toronto has a new Net-Zero Strategy. Tell City Council to fund it.

https://www.torontoenvironment.org/budget2022

RIP Frank Showler - Anti-war activist died Feb. 10 at age 102. 

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Gidimt’en Checkpoint Solidarity Action — Call Out for Support. A Valentine’s Day Break Up with Canada

Mon. Feb. 14

After the RCMP’s violent invasion of Wet’suwet’en territory, 34 land and water protectors, legal observers and journalists were arrested and detained. They were given orders to appear at the BC Supreme Court in Prince George on February 14th, Valentine’s Day — a day of mourning for the countless missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, for 2SLGBTQQIA peoples and their families across Turtle Island. We’re asking allies to help us flood social media on Monday, February 14, Valentine’s Day

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M38W-886byLpbfiAMEsE3RTsOp2GFQlrOSFNEzEUy64/edit

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Nuclear Waste: The Next Generation

Wed. Feb. 16, 7 pm EST

Speakers will look at new challenges in radioactive waste management, including the prospect of new waste types from reprocessing and from so-called “Small Modular Reactors”, and related proliferation risks. With Dr. Gordon Edwards, Dr. M.V. Ramana, and Dr. Frank Von Hippel.

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2tLASpFaTz6RPQvbND9lTw 

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Talking Climate in Ontario

Wed. Feb. 16, 7 - 8:30 pm ET

Whether you’d like to feel more confident talking to someone you bump into at the supermarket or are ready to hold a more structured conversation, this training is designed to help you feel more confident, informed, and empowered.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/talking-climate-in-ontario-tickets-251712357437 

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Recruiting Climate Champions to run in in the Oct. 2022 Local Elections

Wed. Feb. 16, 7 pm PT

This roundtable is a “how to” session with tips and suggestions on how to find and recruit activists to run for elected office. Three experienced election campaign organizers will share their stories.  mailto:sebastian at westcoastclimateaction.ca 

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An evening with Dr. Cornel West

Wed. Feb. 16, 8 p.m. ET

Dr. West is an American philosopher, political activist, social critic and public intellectual. He has written 20 books, including Race Matters and Democracy Matters, and for his memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. His most recent book, Black Prophetic Fire, offers an unflinching look at 19th and 20th-century African American leaders and their visionary legacies.

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_K3VJNThZSX2cP5ifey0iFQ 

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Communicating Climate Change

Wed. Feb. 16, noon - 2 p.m. ET

This talk from U of T’s School of the Environment will address what works and what doesn’t in communicating about climate change with various audiences, and will discuss issues of language, framing, and storytelling, and the influence of ideology, values, and disinformation on social discourse.

https://www.environment.utoronto.ca/events/env1001-seminar-communicating-climate-change-susan-jay-hassol 

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Mobilizing the Green Transition: How government-industry collaborations can move the climate dial

Thur. Feb. 17, 10:30am  

What does the fight against climate change look like when industry and policymakers collaborate? In this roundtable, co-hosted by the Embassy of the Kingdom of The Netherlands and Corporate Knights, representatives from the Canadian and Dutch governments will share their perspectives on cross-sector collaboration, and highlight the future roadmap for Canada and the Netherlands.  

https://mailchi.mp/f641a53db568/the-green-industrial-wave-776696 

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Philanthro-capitalism and the Erosion of Democracy - with Vandana Shiva

Thur. Feb. 17, 1 p.m. ET  

Global capitalists wield philanthropy to monopolize and privatize land use, food production, and the public health sector. Join a conversation with Vandana Shiva and Heather Day of Community Alliance for Global Justice to learn about this dangerous trend—and how global citizens are fighting back.  

https://yesmagazine.secure.force.com/subscribe?campaign=7012I0000014l8LQAQ 

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Youth Organizing for Climate Justice: Building Youth Power - Tactics to Win

Thur. Feb. 17, 10 pm ET  

This workshop digs into the strategies & tactics that young people have used to build power, from relational organizing and direct action to political pressure. 

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VOf4KsBNTP2eqynfKS1IOQ

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Preventing Extinctions

Thur. Feb. 17, 10 pm ET 

Join National Observer founder Linda Solomon and The Tyee's David Beers, in a special event with conservation photographer Andrew S. Wright and biologist Gregg Howald. 

https://www.nationalobserver.com/conversations

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Last of the Right Whales

Feb. 18 - 21 in theatres across Canada

With unprecedented access to film the migration of the North Atlantic right whale from their calving ground off the coast of Florida 

to their new feeding area in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, this feature documentary brings a message of hope about the most at-risk, great whale on the planet.

Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxFcNF1Wj5Q 

List of screenings: https://lastoftherightwhales.com/screenings/ 

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The Crisis in Accessible Housing

Sat. Feb. 19, 2 pm ET

There is no law in Canada requiring that any housing be accessible, even though more than 22% of Canadians have a disability.  In addition, millions of aging Canadians are left out of this statistic because they don’t define themselves as having a disability, despite the struggles of their aging bodies (eyesight, hearing, mobility issues, strokes, heart attacks, etc.). How can we motivate all levels of government to work together to end discrimination in housing against seniors and people with disabilities? Hosted by Canadian Unitarians for Social Justice and the Accessible Housing Network.

https://cusj.org/ 

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